Do the crime, do the time, pay the fine......

[dukluk]

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Texas has a very liberal deer season, and just a quick glance at Texas 2017 deer hunting calendar reveals that he'll spend about 16 weekends (32 days) in jail, next year, then multiply that times 5 years....he pretty much got the whole dang book throwed at him.

My question here is, since it's a state crime, what's to keep him from buying a hunting license in another state, and hunting there???

Pics and full story here:

http://www.wrdw.com/content/news/466504723.html



SHERMAN, Tex.-- Judge Jim Fallon of the 15th District Court sentenced a man caught poaching a deer to spend weekends during deer hunting season in jail for the next five years.

John Walker Drinnon, 34, of Whitesboro was convicted of poaching a 19-point white-tailed buck with a rifle in Grayson County, an archery-only county on private property: a state jail felony.

Fallon ordered Drinnon to spend every weekend of hunting season in jail for the next five years.

Drinnon also received five years of probation and must pay $18,048.10 in civil restitution. The value of the fine was determined through the deer's Boone and Crockett score.

The stag scored 202 on the Boone and Crockett scale, giving it an estimated value of $18,048.10.

Boone and Crockett scores were developed by the Boone and Crockett club and are used to compare trophy animals.

Fallon also prohibited Drinnon from purchasing a hunting license while on probation.

[deltadukman]

My question here is, since it's a state crime, what's to keep him from buying a hunting license in another state, and hunting there???

There is a Wildlife Compact between states that member states agree to not allow someone that has lost their privileges in one state go to another. NOW, I don't know how that is enforceable unless its caught after the offender gets checked in another state and found guilty and then its revealed(honor system), or if its all in some computer database.

[leadsthebest]

$18,048.10 for a deer. Holy cow.

[peewee]

I bet he wished he’d just bought some steaks now.

[420 racin]

An Archery Only County?????
Who ever heard of such?

[booger]

Hey Finis welcome to the forum. Whearabouts are these counties? Mississippi or Texas?

What's the deal, too many people for gun or other reason?

(I should say my deer killing skills are below average)